Winch handle
AssigneeCustom Products Corporation
InventorWalter H. Bacon
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Abstract
An operating handle for a winch having a four or eight-sided socket which comprises a hand engaging portion, a lever arm and a socket driver, the driver being of square shape and having a spring loaded detent therein arranged to extend outwardly of a side of the driver and engage a wall of a socket, the detent being positioned off-center of the vertical center line of the side of said driver and so positioned as to engage on a wall of an eight-sided socket.
Claims3
An operating handle for a winch having a four or eight-sided socket comprising a hand engaging portion, a lever arm and a driver, said driver being secured to an end of said lever arm at an end opposite to said hand engaging portion, said driver having a square shape and having a bore in one side thereof, a detent in said bore, a spring in said bore urging said detent outwardly of a side of said driver to engage a wall of a socket, said bore being positioned off the vertical center line of said side of said driver and so positioned that said detent will engage only one wall of an eight-sided socket.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.